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Irene (1983 Video)

Producer

Rod Ballard

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Irene Cunningham is a double leg amputee who has been assisted to almost complete independence, despite severe arthritis, through the provision of simple aids and adaptations. Shows Irene demonstrating these...

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Richard Strauss: Elektra (2010)

Director

Nikolaus Lehnhoff

Subject

Music

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 109 minutes), £24.99 (DVD); £29.99 (Blu-ray)

Performance of Richard Strauss’s tragic one-act opera ELEKTRA, recorded at the Grosses Festspielhaus during the Salzburg Festival in 2010. Some of the vocalists featured in the leading roles include Irene...

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Trojan Women, The (1971) (1971 Video)

Subject

Classical studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 105 mins), $25.99

1971 film adaptation of Euripides’ classic play starring Katharine Hepburn and Irene Papas, directed by Michael Cacoyannis.

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Sense and Sensibility (1981)

Director

Rodney Bennett

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 350 minutes), £15.99

A production of Jane Austen’s novel made for showing in 7 parts on BBC television in 1981.

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Adoptive Breastfeeding (1993 Video)

Director

Irene Elia

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explains the principle and practice of adoptive lactation, showing that it is possible for a woman to breastfeed an adpoted child without artificial hormones or other treatments, even if she has not given...

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Qui était Kafka? (2007)

aka: Who was Kafka?

Director

Richard Dindo

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), 14.94 Euros

Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...

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AIDS for the Physically Handicapped (1983 Multimedia)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Hire or sale, Audiocassette. 21 min.

Reviews terminology, sources of information, provision and common problems associated with aids for the disabled in the community and shows examples of types of aids provided by the health service and local...

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For the Love of Tomorrow

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 41 minutes), £8.00

This film is a profile of Madame Irène Laure, a member of the French Resistance who, travelled to Germany after the war to speak about the importance of forgiveness. ‘I longed for the total destruction...

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War Poets of ‘39 (1989 Video)

Producer

Peter Lee-Wright

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

Dramatised readings of poetry written during World War 2. Poets featured include Dennis McHarrie, Molly Corbelly, John Brooks, Spike Milligan, Keith Douglas, Bernard Gutteridge, Vernon Scannel and Gavin Ewart.

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Sexual Selection and Speciation: Behaviour Studies on Hawaiian Picture Wings and Their Potential in a Med Fly Eradication Program (1992 Video)

Producer

David Jackson

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the factors for new species formation, using as the example the Hawaiian ‘Drosophila’, the so-called ‘picture-wings’. Considers the biological control of the Mediterranean fruit fly in...

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